You know what? A year ago, I would have shared the exact same scepticism.
Now, I have an infant daughter who likes nothing more than being carried around, which has exponentially increased the number of activities I do with one hand, standing up.
Being able to have a soundless controller that you don't need to pick up or fiddle around with in a way that disturbs a tiny human sleeping on your other arm sounds like absolute perfection.
I just went to the leap dev meetup in nyc, (i also dev for leap). My feeling is that its a great UI instrument, for UI focused applications. What do i mean by that? Well, think of museums, aquariums, jobs such as architecture, perhaps autocad. Jobs/tasks where it would be way more fun and efficient to do the action with your hands.
Now, I have an infant daughter who likes nothing more than being carried around, which has exponentially increased the number of activities I do with one hand, standing up.
Being able to have a soundless controller that you don't need to pick up or fiddle around with in a way that disturbs a tiny human sleeping on your other arm sounds like absolute perfection.